JAMIN II Mangrove Organism Show and Tell

Jamaican high school students and teachers enjoy a Mangrove Organism Show and Tell session as part of the Jamaican Awareness of Mangroves in Nature (JAMIN) Program.

Teachers at Willliam Knibb High School holding a sea urchin. Fulvia Nugent (right) is one of our JAMIN teachers.
Holland High School teachers, Cherrida Walters-Jackson and Gregory Peart examine a sea cucumber during professional development training.
A brittle star, a type of starfish, that we showed to teachers and students when talking about the organisms that live in the mangroves.
Fulvia Nugent, William Knibb High School JAMIN teacher, learns about sea cucumbers during a teacher training session.
During a JAMIN professional development session, our Director of Education Amy Heemsoth describes the various type of macroalgae (seaweed) and their role in sand production.
Holland High School grade 10 biology students concentrate on listening to a presentation about mangrove food webs.
JAMIN participants at Holland High School check out the small structures of a lettuce sea slug in the microviewer.
Biology students at Holland High School touch an anemone and find out that the tentacle are quite sticky.
Purple-tipped anemone that we brought to Holland and William Knibb high schools as part of a "What Lives in the Mangroves?" activity.
10th graders at William Knibb High School check out marine snails.
William Knibb student holds sea anemone and laughs as the tube feet start to move tickling his hand.
William Knibb students take a break from looking at mangrove organisms to take a group photo.
Students at William Knibb High School gently hold a sea cucumber and they mention that it feels slimmy.
William Knibb student (on the right) is explaining to her classmate that there are mirrors inside the microviewer that reflect the image of the animals inside.
Excited students at William Knibb High School ask for a photo with a sea anemone.

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